Cisco Unified Contact Center vs. NiCE CXone Mpower

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Unified Contact Center
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Unified Contact Center is a contact center platform that can support up to 24,000 agents. It supports call routing, omnichannel integrations, and a management portal for creating customer profiles, segmentation, and resource monitoring.N/A
NiCE CXone Mpower
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
NICE CXone Mpower is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.
$71
per month per user
Pricing
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
CXone Mpower Digital Agent
$71
per month per user
CXone Mpower Voice Agent
$94
per month per user
CXone Mpower Omnichannel Agent
$110
per month per user
CXone Mpower Essential Suite
$135
per month per user
Cxone Mpower Core Suite
$169
per month per user
CXone Mpower Complete Suite
$209
per month per user
CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
$249
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Considered Both Products
Cisco Unified Contact Center
Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center

I am typically post RFP and selection process, but clients that have selected UCCE over the competitors are the clients that are not quite ready to embrace cloud or SAAS solutions, or they have selected Cisco due to reputation and long-term stability suitability.

Clients want to …

Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
Besides the initial cost and the in house expertise required to manage Cisco Enterprise, the Cisco platform holds up pretty well in my opinion to its competitors. Cisco needs to modernize its product delivery. The costs should be more spread out and there should be built in …
NiCE CXone Mpower
Chose NiCE CXone Mpower
Interactive Intelligence
Cisco Express and Enterprise.
Features
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Unified Contact Center
4.6
41 Ratings
58% below category average
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.4
581 Ratings
12% above category average
Agent dashboard5.141 Ratings9.5559 Ratings
Validate callers5.137 Ratings9.6471 Ratings
Outbound response5.137 Ratings9.5490 Ratings
Call forwarding5.138 Ratings9.5443 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)4.131 Ratings8.9403 Ratings
Warm transfer4.136 Ratings9.8531 Ratings
Predictive dialing4.128 Ratings9.6317 Ratings
Interactive voice response4.135 Ratings9.6376 Ratings
REST APIs5.131 Ratings9.1301 Ratings
Call scripts4.136 Ratings9.1322 Ratings
Call tracking4.139 Ratings9.4510 Ratings
Multichannel integration4.131 Ratings9.5364 Ratings
CRM software integration5.131 Ratings9.0365 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Unified Contact Center
4.7
42 Ratings
55% below category average
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.4
556 Ratings
13% above category average
Inbound call routing5.139 Ratings9.4511 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing4.131 Ratings9.2373 Ratings
Recording4.035 Ratings9.6495 Ratings
Quality management5.136 Ratings9.2480 Ratings
Call analytics5.137 Ratings8.9486 Ratings
Historical reporting5.140 Ratings9.4479 Ratings
Live reporting4.140 Ratings9.4465 Ratings
Customer surveys5.028 Ratings9.5299 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics5.030 Ratings9.8319 Ratings
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Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(50 ratings)
9.6
(613 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(5 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(8 ratings)
9.2
(587 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(9 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(16 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.8
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Professional Services
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(8 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
I would recommend it to other people in my contact and business circle, but if I recommend it to someone who has certain difficulties in accessing some tools within Cisco, he may have great difficulty in getting help because of the support that is lacking in most of the times.
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NICE Systems
NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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Pros
Cisco
  • Provides you with a solid routing engine that was built to handle Service Provider level throughput - if you need stability and a work horse this is the platform for you.
  • The core features on the whole are good, but where UCCE is very good is the eco-system of Solutions Plus partner integrations that expand on the core capabilities with the market leaders in areas such as WFO, Campaign Management, Biometrics and Natural Language.
  • The investment Cisco makes in the CC space means they are always improving the platform features, scale and reliability.
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NICE Systems
  • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
  • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
  • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
  • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
  • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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Cons
Cisco
  • After 25+ years, the product still requires experienced and highly skilled engineers to deploy the product properly per Cisco Best Practice guidelines.
  • Third-party integrations are also very cumbersome and require highly skilled and experienced engineers and significant time and financial investment to deploy.
  • Upgrading the product is cumbersome and requires Cisco ATP or Cisco AS which is time consuming and very expensive.
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NICE Systems
  • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
  • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
  • Hardly to find any other :)
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
if it is up to me I would maintain its use. I was not able to make those decisions previously.
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NICE Systems
Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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Usability
Cisco
Cisco Unified Contact Center is a scalable product . Can be used in amy organizational units not only the contact center . Can be used for many IT Helpdesk setups and any internal or external CC . We can use it to automate the outbound dialing as well for marketting and invoices and other use cases
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NICE Systems
The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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Reliability and Availability
Cisco
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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Performance
Cisco
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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Support Rating
Cisco
Cisco Unified Contact center is a very smart & reliable solution to go for. Its active-active sight base architecture and [customizable] features really help to deliver efficient customer service, enhanced next-gen experience, and uninterrupted operations. I believe every [organization] should opt for it if required.
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NICE Systems
inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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In-Person Training
Cisco
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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Online Training
Cisco
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
Similar I guess, however, I feel like Avaya was more suited for a contact center and allowed for all information to be in one place. The QA Forms were more flexible and easy to review. Predicative analysis was available to assist with scheduling and staffing. It was easier to manipulate and implement- I didn't need to go through 3 different parties to make a simply modification.
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NICE Systems
When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Cisco
Licenses are very expensive. The customer has to buy IP telephony or Unified Communication and Collaboration Licenses and for Contact Center Solution licenses separately. There must be a price tone down as the competition is really high. New customers are willing to go for cloud-based solutions [that] are cheaper and easy to deploy.
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NICE Systems
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Cisco
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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Professional Services
Cisco
Scripting not supported
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NICE Systems
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Cisco
  • A smoother route to helping end users with critical needs
  • With quick assist while on hold, less calls come into the pool while agents have the ability to assist more critical needs
  • The ability to work remotely during an extreme event assisting end users
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NICE Systems
  • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
  • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
  • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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ScreenShots

NiCE CXone Mpower Screenshots

Screenshot of a holistic view of omnichannel call center metrics, with insights for everyone in the contact center. The CXone Mpower Dashboard aggregates both real-time and historical cross-domain data.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Copilot for Agent, which empowers agents with smarter interactions, personalized coaching, and automation opportunities.Screenshot of the CXone Mpower AgentScreenshot of CXone Mpower Orchestrator, a tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Performance Management, which aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.